Saturday, August 12, 2017

Facts Supplanted by Propaganda Wherever We Look by Paul Craig Roberts

Russia is under economic and
propaganda attack from the US. Additionally, the US is surrounding Russia and
China with military and missile bases, leading both countries to the conclusion
that Washington is preparing a surprise nuclear attack. Despite the high level
of threat that Washington represents to the two nuclear powers, the English
language Russian press can still find time to alert us to the increasing
persecution of male Americans in behalf of feminist myths.

RT reports on a memo sent by a male
engineer within Google. The memo committed the impermissible offense of
challenging the feminist allegation that women are paid less than men in
science and technology because of male discrimination against women. The
engineer expressed a cogent argument, once understood as the obvious truth,
that, despite sexism and all that, there are “differences in distributions of
traits between men and women.” He lists male traits and female traits and
nowhere says female traits are less important, only that they lie in different
areas. https://www.rt.com/usa/398766-google-memo-viral-women/

The engineer says that truth about
male/female differences can no longer be uttered, because of “our shaming
culture” that feminists and Identity Politics have created. We are obliged to
ignore all factual evidence, because the evidence does not support the
ideology.

The engineer, so far undiscovered and
not yet fired, was denounced by Google’s new vice president for Diversity,
Integrity and Governance, Danielle Brown—a woman of course—for advancing
“incorect assumptions about gender.” There is no known scientific evidence
attesting to the incorrectness of the engineer’s exposition, and even if there
were there is nothing unusual about Americans having incorrect opinions. What
Danielle Brown means is that what we all know to be true is inconsistent with
the feminist ideology and therefore impermissible.

The unasked and unanswered question
remains. How does a culture, or merely ordinary competence, survive when
propaganda is elevated over fact?